Getting made fun of is a regular occurrence for comedian Amy Schumer. So when she was asked to do her second Comedy Central roast, this time to burn Roseanne Barr, she jumped at the chance.

She had survived jabs thrown at her during a similar roast of Charlie Sheen last September by a panel that included Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, William Shatner, Mike Tyson, Jackass personality Steve-O, Jeffrey Ross and the late Patrice O’Neal on the dais. She was sure she could handle Katey Sagal, Carrie Fisher, Ellen Barkin and Jane Lynch.

“It’s really an honor,” Schumer says of the roast, shot last weekend at the Hollywood Palladium. “After doing the first one I was like, ‘Oh God, what are they going to say about me?’ or ‘What do people see when they look at me?’ I know my own insecurities, but what are these new sets of insecurities people are going to hand me?

“Then you realize that it’s not really personal. You just try to craft a good joke, and honestly it was a lot of fun. Nothing hurt my feelings and it was really a special night for me, especially being with all of those female comics.”During the special, airing Sunday on Comedy Central, the 31-year-old comic says one of the most memorable moments was a retor Barr made about her.

“At the end, when Roseanne was doing her set, she made a joke about me being not funny, then she stopped herself,” Schumer shares. “She said, ‘I’m not going to make that joke – I thought Amy was hilarious and I think she’s great and I don’t want to say that.’ She just stopped her sentence and in 30 seconds said the nicest stuff about me, and it really choked me up and caught me by surprise.”

Prior to the roast’s premiere, New York-based Schumer makes a quick stop in Orange County to headline the Irvine Improv tonight and Saturday. This will be her second time performing in the area – the first was years ago when she opened for Insomniac comic Dave Attell.

“I love it there,” she says. “I love beach volleyball and surfing and the little boardwalk area in Newport Beach. I’ve stayed in Newport a number of times because I want to be there riding up and down the boardwalk on my bike. That’s the perfect place for me.”

In high school Schumer was voted teacher’s worst nightmare and class clown. She recalls always performing for friends, and though she studied theater at college to ultimately become an actress, she fell in love with stand-up along the way. On her 23rd birthday she took four friends into a club and did her first seven minutes of stand-up.

“I still have the tape of that,” she says. “It’s brutal. But I was totally comfortable on stage. I didn’t have any stage fright.”

Since her stand-up debut Schumer says that more seasoned comics have always encouraged her to continue. In the early days it was small-club headliners; now it’s talk show hosts and fellow comics like Conan O’Brien, Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon.

“When I did Conan, he came back into the green room, which he rarely does, and he said he just wanted to come back and encourage me to keep going,” she shares. “That was really important to me.”

Her highest compliment so far came from DeGeneres, a comic Schumer admires greatly. After she appeared as the first female comic on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she says its namesake gave her great advice and kind words she won’t soon forget.

“I didn’t take that for granted. It was kind of serious to me, just like when Roseanne said that stuff to me at the roast; it kind of floored me and it just didn’t fall on deaf ears.

“I feel like I have a responsibility to keep going and to keep working at it. It really does make me cry. I’m happy about it, though. It just feels like I’m doing the right thing.”

Schumer has hit numerous milestones in her career already, including placing fourth on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, appearing on TV shows like 30 Rock, Louie and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and landing a small role in the Steve Carell flick Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.

This year is turning out to be a big one as well. Her hour-long Comedy Central special Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff debuts Aug. 18. Later this month she begins production on a sketch series for the network, Inside with Amy Schumer.

“The show is stand-up, man-on-the-street stuff, hidden-camera stuff – it’s a lot of fun,” she shares of the series, slated for spring.

In May, Schumer was featured in Rolling Stone’s “The Big Issue” as the “big mouth.” The short feature included a photo of Schumer in a barely-holding-on gold dress, and though it was “cool” to see herself in the magazine, she says it also just seemed “unreal.”

“It’s so surreal that I didn’t even really experience it. As a comedian, that’s not something that’s on my radar of milestones, really. It’s just some extra fun, but I couldn’t really feel it because to me it looked fake. It’s weird. I saw it and I was like ‘That’s not me.'”

Kelli Skye Fadroski lives for entertainment. She’s worked at The Orange County Register since 2006 and has covered all things music, stand-up comedy, horror and more. When she’s not out reviewing a concert or interviewing some random famous person, she’s catching up on episodes of 'The Walking Dead,' somewhere sampling craft beer, enjoying Taco Tuesday or yelling at the contestants through the TV on 'Celebrity Name Game' for not knowing basic pop culture trivia. She’s also a diehard Detroit Lions fan.